Fresh capacity addition in thermal power has fallen woefully short of the targets. Only 2129.75 Mw capacity has been added during April-January of this fiscal, denoting only 44 per cent of the actual capacity of 4850 envisaged for the period.
Startlingly, no capacity was added by central sector generating utilities in the period under review. The state owned generators barely managed to accomplish half of their target of 3150 Mw by adding 1529.75 Mw, data collated by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) showed. Overall capacity addition for thermal power has been pegged at 7266.15 Mw for this financial year. But the tardy pace of capacity addition has cast doubts on achieving even the half way mark.
An industry source attributed the phenomena to the glut in availability of thermal power, the slide in demand and growing traction of renewable sources.
